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The Sher-Wood TPS True Touch T50 is a low-cost wood hockey stick. The computer-controlled custom woven filament winding of this stick makes this stick durable. This design also offers constant reflex memory.
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Allen, Julian and Browne, Michael and Cherrett, Tom (2012) Survey techniques in urban freight transport studies. Transport Reviews, 32 (3). pp. 287-311. ISSN 0144-1647
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This article reviews and assesses the various survey techniques that have been used in studies in which data have been collected to obtain an understanding of road-based urban freight transport activities. The review identified 162 such studies in 18 countries over the last 50 years, and 12 different types of urban survey technique. In the studies reviewed, establishment surveys have been the most commonly used technique, followed by freight operator surveys, vehicle observation surveys, driver surveys, roadside interview surveys, and vehicle trip diaries. Few examples of other survey techniques (commodity flow, parking, global positioning system, supplier and service provider surveys) were identified. Establishment and vehicle observation surveys have the potential to offer insight into a wider range of issues associated with urban freight deliveries and collections to and from establishments in a specific urban area than the other survey techniques reviewed. These two survey techniques can provide insight into the frequency of goods vehicles deliveries and collections by time of day and day of week, the activities involved in the loading/unloading process, and the freight requirements of individual establishments. However, all 12 survey techniques provide insight into varying aspects of urban freight operations and various combinations are therefore likely to be used in future studies.
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2007 Shaun White 156cm Salomon F20 boots Salomon Relay Pro bindings Height: 5'10" Weight: 150 lbs Boot Size: 10.5 Age: 22 Location: Washington Style: Freeriding/Freestyle I picked up this setup over the weekend (medium bindings). I really wanted the boot because of the smaller footprint for my board. Everyone in the store (snowboard connection in bellevue, wa) was telling me to try out the Relay Pro bindings, especially since I wanted the F20 boot, so I was sold on them (was looking at these, the Burton P1 and the Burton Triad). I was just wondering what everyone thought on the Relay Pro bindings. Or what binding would you recommend with a cap strap (i prefer these). Right now im more a backcountry type person because this is only my 3rd season of boarding and i'm still developing but i'm hoping to get into hitting jumps and stuff this year. thanks! Last edited by jmerickson; 10-15-2007 at 11:20 AM. |
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That is ONLY if he needs to get the big tractor/excavater to haul you out. Those volunteers work their asses of doing winching and recovery ALL DAMN DAY so YOU have a good time! They make numerous repairs as well throughout the day and I didn't see anyone being charged a dime.
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Well, rumor has it the "skool" portion of the SHC property is ceasing operations after their November event. It appears that the property owners intend on hosting their own events.
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Awwww shucks. I was looking forward to a class on how to air down my tires.
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Wow.... all I can say is wow....
A few years ago, I visited this facility with a few Hummers (you may recall my post from back then) with the thought of doing an event there. The property has a LOT of potential, and it sounded like Kelly had some good ideas. When I review this thread, I am pleased that I did not hold a Hummer event at his facility. Like Whiterhino, I am in awe of the fact that a business such as this, looking for people to bring them income, would post with such arrogance and childish behavior as depicted in this thread. Image is everything, and IMHO, the image of this facility has fallen off the table. Sad for wheelers in and around NE OH where this place is - we really need more places to go not less. |
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Well they didn't lower the price any so I guess we'll see what happens after this first event. I appears that a good portion of Kelly's old "staff" are sticking around though.
November 24th, 2011, 08:57 AM | #453 |
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I never met him in person but I had several communications with him. Most of them not so good. Here's hoping the new plan works out better.
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Traditionally known as Dismas, one of the thieves crucified with Christ, who rebuked his companion for demanding that Christ should save them, prayed instead a share in His Kingdom, and received the assurance: "This day thou shalt be with Me in paradise." A portion of the cross on which he died is preserved in the Chapel of Relics, Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, Rome. He is patron of persons condemned to death.
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I don't think survival is the issue. Sure they could have survived, but what's the difference in risk levels between abandoning ship and continuing the trip without a rudder? Is it REALLY worth it?
If their only option was to continue, I'm sure they would have survived, there have been plenty of incidents where people in this same situation have either jury rigged a rudder or survived without. I don't really think survival is the issue, but the level of risk they assumed changed when their rudder broke.
But shouldn't a cruiser have some idea what they are going to do as a backup before they ever leave port ? These things do happen, hulls get holed or stopcocks start leaking, engines stop working, sails get ripped, masts fall down, boats lose electricity and electronics, and rudders break. Should any of those things automatically mean leaving the boat ? These are the kinds of things that have happened throughout the history of sailing, do you sacrifice your entire boat just because the rudder is screwed up ?
I'm not saying it'll work, that any backup plan will work, but it seems like we should all have some idea what we're going to do if those kinds of things happen, something we can try, right ? Or is it just, hey, we've got insurance, hit the EPIRB!
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On her right arm is a Japanese-themed sleeve in progress done by the Tattoo Clinic in her hometown of Maybank. You won't, however, find any Samurais or male warriors on Baker's arm. Everything is female-oriented, down to the sword-wielding killing-machine Geishas. Why the lack of a male influence? "It's probably because I'm gay."
One of the Geishas is positioned with her arms folded out, with two heads resting her hands. "Yeah, she's a badass bitch," Barker says. On the top of her arm is a brightly colored pink and red koi fish, surrounded by purple lilies. "I just like the story of the koi fish how it turns into a dragon." It represents good luck in her life.
The inside of Barker's arm is a vicious horned-creature grinning from ear to ear. The Hannya mask traditionally represents a jealous woman or female demon. Or for Barker, a woman's scorn. "I don't think I've ever met a woman who hasn't been scorned."
Her left arm is quite bare, and has one of the best "13" tattoos I've seen. "It's a pearl necklace and boobs; I figured why the hell not."
The inside of her wrist is half heart, half skull and crossbones, which Barker says she might have gotten too hastily. "I don't know I was young and thought it'd be cool at the time but now I think I want to cover it up."
Baker said for now she just wants to concentrate on getting her sleeve finished. Like many tattooed people, she is not a fan of being grabbed by interested parties. "I hate it; I prefer when people ask to my tattoos rather then grab me like they usually do."
Her artwork is apparently so desirable she's been the target of a "missed connections" post on Craigslist. "She described my tattoos and all the way up to what color flashlight I had at work. It kind of freaked me out." She said her Station 4 family brought it to her attention and teased her about it. "I was weirded out. I wore pants for a while."
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The khiladi of Bollywood, Akshay Kumar is so fond of his son Aarav that the actor got his name inscribed on his body. Once known as the original action star of Hindi film cinema, Akshay had to tone down his stunts for the sake of his kid. After an all out action debut, post the birth of Aarav, Akshay took fewer risky assignments as he didn't want his son to get influenced by his on-screen persona. Only after his son reached an age of understanding, Akshay made a comeback with explosive action film 'Rowdy Rathore'.- Spice Team
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Father of two big kids Junaid and Ira, Aamir Khan is still an eye-candy who can give the yummy-mummies of Bollywood a run for their money. The actor who juggles fatherhood and acting with ease has been a cool dad in real life. Not one to impose his rules on Junaid and Ira, Aamir at a recent TV show supported the idea of free thinking and liberty of his kids to choose their own career options. The actor, who was recently blessed with another child via surrogacy didn`t allow the tumultuous times of divorce with Reena and re-marriage with Kiran Rao to change his equation with Junaid and Ira.- Spice Team
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A. Well, Nixon wasn't my first White House experience. My first White House experience was as a Kennedy consultant. So if I hadn't had that, I probably couldn't have done the Nixon period, because they taught me what can go on in a White House. But you're not doing an article about me.
Q. The article is about Dr. Rice. But one of the things people tell me is you have to understand what it means for a younger person with some limited experience on the NSC to suddenly find themselves surrounded by these titans, these elephants, Powell, Rumsfeld, Cheney. What qualities of mind and temperament were necessary for you to keep your balance and do your job under similar circumstances, especially at the beginning?
A. Almost all of the departmental papers try to move an immediate decision. That's a particular problem at the beginning of an administration because almost every department that was overruled in the previous administration tries to get it reversed in the new administration. And you have the paradoxical problem of having no files, because the previous administration has taken all the files. So you have to spend some time reconstituting the files.
But I was lucky. Nixon was a very conceptual President, and I surrounded myself with the most conceptual people I could find. So we made up our mind at the beginning that we would answer the big questions. First, what are we trying to do? What is the objective here? And actually, contrary to what almost everybody writes, we used the NSC mechanism. The NSC mechanism didn't necessarily know what we would ultimately do with it, and they certainly had a shot at presenting what they thought should be done. And then I had my own staff. Anyway, that's how it started.
Q. Going through Secretary Rice's interviews, roundtables with the press, her published work—there's an analogy that she draws again and again to this present moment in history and the beginning of the Cold War. It's something that she does with me, and something that she does repeatedly in interviews. She says we are making decisions now that will set the groundwork for policy for the next 50 years. She talks about Dean Acheson, she talks about George Marshall. What do you make of the analogy between this moment in history and the beginning of the Cold War?
A. The essence of the beginning of the Cold War was that the state system as we knew it was beginning to drag. A new danger appeared in the center of Europe. And Europe, which had been the leading continent and the leading actor in world affairs, was declining and was no longer capable of carrying out its responsibilities. George Marshall and Truman guided America into an international system. They defined the international system, and conducted debates in this country.
Now, a number of things are going on simultaneously today that are not necessarily concurrent. In the North Atlantic, in Europe, the nation-state is disintegrating, but the new political unit, the European Union, has emerged here as a political non-factor. So in effect, Europe has no mechanisms for conducting strategic policy the way it used to be conducted by nation-states. Maybe that's not possible for a transnational unit. That's what we have to find out.
In the relations between states, war is no longer possible. That's a new factor. How do you conduct foreign policy when you can't have war, and you have populations that are not willing to make any sacrifice for anything, including domestic changes? On the other hand, America is still a nation, and that greatly affects our relation with Europe.
And we have Asia, which is more like Europe was in the 19th century, with the notion of equilibrium and balance of power, and so forth. Then you have the Middle East, which is like Europe was in the 17th century, torn by religious and sectarian conflicts. And on top of that, you have a new set of problems that have never existed before and can only be solved on a global basis—climate, energy, terror, for which there is no national mechanism really to deal with it....
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Model 500 telephone
The Western Electric model 500 telephone series was the standard domestic desk telephone set issued by the Bell System in North America from 1950 through the 1984 Bell System divestiture. Millions of model 500-series phones were produced and were present in most homes in North America. Many are still in use today because of their durability and ample availability. Its modular construction compared to previous types simplified manufacture and repair, and facilitated a large number of variants with added features.
Touch-tone service was introduced to residential customers in 1963 with the model 1500 telephone, which had a push-button pad for the ten digits. The model 2500 telephone, introduced in 1968, added the * and # keys, and is still in production today by several manufacturers.
The Western Electric 500-type telephone replaced the 300-type which had been produced since 1936. Like its predecessor, the model 500 line was designed by the firm of industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss, the product of several years of research and testing in collaboration with Bell Laboratories and Western Electric. Development started in 1946 and lead to pre-production units in 1948 and field trials with 4000 telephone sets in 1949. AT&T announced the new telephone publicly in 1949, and communicated the first availability of approximately 23,000 sets in the second quarter 1950 to the Bell System operating companies on May 1, 1950.[1] Third and fourth quarter production was estimated at 49,000 and 93,000, respectively. Including 20,000 units of a special purpose set (501B), approximately 183,000 units were produced by the end of the first production year.[2]
In the following years, systematic replacement of 25 million 300-type telephones commenced because of the much improved electrical and acoustic efficiency of the new model.[3] This efficiency permitted the new model to be used on long rural loops, which previously required special sets with local batteries to power the transmitter, not just on urban short loops, because it contained a self-adjusting gain control. This also permitted the use of thinner loop wires and thus delivered cost-savings in the build-out of the network.
The replacement of 300-series telephones with 500-series sets created large stockpiles of 300-type components that had not reached their intended service life. The accelerating demand for new telephone service in the 1950s created pressure on the manufacturing facilities, which the Bell System alleviated by reusing these older components to refurbish used 302 telephone sets with a new modern housing that had a look-alike appearance to the 500 model, but were electrically identical to the older 302 telephone. This program commenced in 1955, and the converted set was labeled as the model 5302 telephone. It was produced until the mid-1960s in the refurbishing shops of each Bell Operating Company, not on the assembly lines of Western Electric factories.
From the 1949 field trials until 1953, only black sets of the 500-type telephone were manufactured. The introduction of telephones in color occurred in several stages until 1957, as manufacturing capability was refined and material selection processes were completed.
In the 1960s, after the introduction of touch-tone service in November 1963 in various locations of the telephone network, the 500 was retrofitted with a push-button keypad, creating the model 1500 for the 10-button version and in 1968 the model 2500, having 12 keys.
The 1970s brought the conversion to modular cord technology, replacing the hard-wired handset cords as well as the fixed line cords (mounting cords) with cords that were terminated on both ends with 4P4C (RJ-10) connectors for handsets, and 6P4C (RJ-14) connectors for mounting.
Ownership and AT&T divestiture[edit]
As with most telephones of the time in the United States, the 500-series telephones were owned by the local Bell Operating Company and leased on a monthly basis to customers. Choices for telephone styles and colors were limited. AT&T, the principal owner of the operating companies and Western Electric, strictly enforced policies against buying and using telephone sets by other manufacturers on their network, to ensure the technical integrity of their network and avoid competition. Most phones made by Western Electric, starting in about 1968, carried this disclaimer molded into their housing: "BELL SYSTEM PROPERTY--NOT FOR SALE." Telephones were also sometimes labeled with a sticker or ink stamp marking the name of the operating company that owned the telephone. After consumers started buying telephones from other manufacturers,[citation needed] in the wake of legal developments not favoring AT&T's ban against third-party equipment, AT&T changed its policy for the Design Line telephone series by selling customers the telephone housing but retaining ownership of the electrical components, so customers were still required to pay AT&T a monthly leasing fee.
In 1983, after the court ordered the Bell System divestiture, AT&T started selling telephone sets outright to the public through its newly created American Bell division. Many customers were offered the option to buy the leased telephones they had in service. AT&T closed its USA consumer telephone manufacturing plants in 1986, and moved production offshore to Singapore, China, and Thailand, and in the 1990s to Mexico; this let them produce telephones at lower cost.
Design features[edit]
The Western Electric model 500 improved upon several design features over the earlier telephones. While the 302 had the dial and hook switch mounted directly on the metal or plastic housing, all operational parts of the 500 telephone were mounted on the base plate, and the housing only contained two plungers to activate the hook switch when the handset was lifted from the cradle. Thus, the phone could be tested and serviced easily without the housing. This design improved manufacturing and servicing efficiency. The earlier 302 had been equipped with an enamel-coated dial plate that displayed the numerals and letters through the holes of the rotary finger-wheel. Years of use caused the lettering and numbering, and even the porcelain coating, to wear off. The design of the 500 improved this by molding the characters into the plastic instead of printing them on the surface. The numbers and letters were moved to the circumference of the dial plate to make them clearly visible from a wide range of viewing angles even while the dial was spinning back to its resting position, and dots were placed in the center of the finger holes as targets to help position the finger quicker for dialing of the next digit while the wheel was still spinning back. After extensive testing, this arrangement had the benefit of reducing the rate of dialing errors, and increased the speed of dialing each digit by fractions of a second. The 500 series replaced many metal parts, especially in the dial, with much more durable Nylon components.
The Dreyfuss design later adapted itself well to touch-tone service, first announced in 1963. The earliest experimental touch-tone phones used the original Dreyfuss design almost unchanged; the keypad, in varying layouts, was placed in a roundel in the dial opening, with the subscriber number label in a small window below. The 1500 and 2500 models adopted a more angular design style; the curves of the original design gave way to a raised borders forming a lip around the finely-ribbed faceplate, in the middle of which the keypad and number window were centered.
Electrically and acoustically, the 500-series telephones had better efficiency and gain characteristics than their predecessors. The transmission efficiency was 5dB higher and the receiver efficiency was 2.5dB better on long loops than the 300-series telephones. A significant improvement was the use of equalization circuitry to achieve automatic gain adjustment so that the sets could be deployed with equal performance on short or long local loops from the central office. The G-type handset was newly developed to help realize this efficiency, as the older F series handset was already operating at the peak of its acoustic and electrical design efficiency. The G handset remains the standard handset on many phones, including public payphones.
For the initial years, the 500 was available only in black and had a rotary dial with a black-painted metal finger-wheel. Black sets remained the most-issued version throughout the model's production.[citation needed] By 1953 colored telephones were announced with housings in four colors, some initially still with black handsets and dials. As handsets and dials were produced in full colors by 1954, the palette was extended to eight colors (ivory, green, dark grey, red, brown, beige, yellow, and dark blue) and dials were shipped with a clear Lucite finger wheel, while the black units retained the metal wheel until about 1964. Market research in the second half of the 1950s indicated a growing trend in popularity toward lighter colors, and in 1957, additional colors of white and pink were introduced, while the darker colors (brown, dark beige, dark gray, and dark blue) were retired and replaced with light beige, light gray, and aqua blue. Turquoise was added as late as 1964 and after the breakup of the Bell System, the 1980s and '90s saw the creation of many additional hues.
The phone consisted of a rotary dial, a handset cradle, switch hook, and a handset (sometimes called the receiver) wired to the base, and was constructed of a molded plastic housing covering a steel chassis. The user interface consisted of only the dial and switch hook buttons. No other components, switches, or controls were necessary, with the exception of a loudness control for the ringer, which was accessible on the bottom of the phone. The handset cradle was a molded part of the housing, formed of two U-shaped chairs which cradled the handle of the handset between the receiver and the transmitter cups. Each side of the cradle had a round plastic plunger positioned above a pair of levers connected in a spring-loaded yoke that operated the hook switch; pressing the plungers down ended the call and placed the phone on-hook. The plastic face of the dial under and surrounding the finger wheel was an integral part of the dial assembly and was exposed through a large circular opening in the housing. On the bottom, the flat steel plate of the chassis was exposed. The handset cord exited from the left side of the housing at the base, near the rear, and the line cord emerged from the rear at the base.
Internally, the phone contained circuitry composed of a small number of passive electrical, electronic and mechanical components. The set needed no separate power supply as it was powered from the telephone line; when it was on-hook and not ringing, it used virtually no power, as the ringer was isolated with a capacitor from the direct current (DC) potential of the local loop.
The most complex internal part was the rotary dial mechanism, an assembly of gears, cams, springs, and electrical contacts which mechanically generated a timed train of line loop-break pulses when the dial finger wheel was released after rotation. During the period of dial rotation, the receiver was shunted to avoid hearing the dialing pulses.
The ringer was a mechanical bell consisting of two bell gongs of slightly different dimensions to produce different pitches and a striker between them driven by a solenoid; when the solenoid was energized by AC ringing current, typically about 90V at 20Hz, it struck the two gongs alternately, producing a distinctive effect of two superimposed sounds. On phones with a ringer loudness control, one gong was mounted off-center on the loudness control wheel; turning the wheel moved the gong toward (quieter) or away (louder) from the striker. Overall, the model 500 ringer was fairly loud and could be heard a few rooms away. The ringer could not be turned off on-the-fly, but could be disabled in the wiring. When the phone was subjected to mechanical shock the striker would hit the brass bells and a short ring would be heard. This effect was faithfully represented in various films and television shows.
The model 500 telephone was designed for a long service life. Telephones in the Bell System were owned by the telephone company, which was responsible for keeping them in good repair. The phones were rugged and reliable, and intended to last for decades with little maintenance. The 1940s-era technology of the 500 made extensive use of metal components and point-to-point wiring, and most components were modular and easy to remove and replace. The wiring system employed wires terminated with crimped spade lugs and slotted-screw terminals; most electrical connections in the phone could be disconnected or reconnected with a standard screwdriver.
Originally, the line cord and handset cord were secured by screw-down terminals at both ends, with a strain relief anchor. Tubular rubber covers at the ends resisted tangling and wear. The mounting (line) cord, which is the cord that connected a desk set to a network junction box mounted typically on a wall, had typically the same color as the phone. During a short transition period when colored sets were introduced in the mid 1950s they were dark gray. In approximately 1973, the line cords were changed to a neutral gray color and from a round to a flat cross-section. Until the late 1960s, telephone wiring often employed a plug and jack system using a proprietary four-prong connector for the wall end of the mounting cord. A few years later much smaller modular connectors were introduced for both ends of the line cord as well as the handset cord. These were less rugged, but could be replaced easily. A new standard RJ11 jack was molded with lips to grip firmly the edges of a hole in the housing.
Several telephone models were derived from the basic model 500, using some of the same components. The model 554 was a wall-mounted version. Other special purpose models included additional features. This included phones with dial lights (500U), party line sets (501), keysets (540 and 560 series), call directors, panel phones (750 series), industrial and outdoor phones (520 and 525), and automatic dialers (660).[4]
Starting in 1963, the Dreyfuss design adapted itself well to the newly announced touch-tone service. The earliest experimental touch-tone phones used the original Dreyfuss design almost unchanged; the keypad, in varying layouts, was placed in a roundel in the dial opening, with the subscriber number label in a small window below. The 1500 and 2500 models adopted an angular design style; the curves of the original design gave way to a raised borders forming a lip around the finely-ribbed faceplate, in the middle of which the keypad and number window were centered.
Standard touch-tone telephones generate twelve DTMF signals in a grid of three by four buttons, while some special purpose phones added a fourth column of keys for the A,B,C and D DTMF signals, generally reserved for military use in the AUTOVON system. Original sets used a transistor oscillator; newer phones use an integrated circuit. The model 1500 only had push buttons for the 10 digits, while the model 2500 used 12 keys and included the '*' and '#' DTMF signals to allow for extra signaling needed in advanced service features, such as voice response systems and call management.
Other manufacturers[edit]
Beginning in the early 1950s, 500-style phones were also made under license by ITT Kellogg (now Cortelco), who continued manufacturing the original rotary design, marketed as the Cortelco ITT-500AS (desk phone) and Cortelco ITT-554AS (wall phone), until discontinuation on January 1, 2007. The design was also produced in Canada by Northern Electric, which eventually became Northern Telecom. Cortelco continues to produce a non-dial version of the model 500, known as the Model 89001047PAK, this phone is available only in bright red color. Stromberg-Carlson (now part of Siemens) also made the phones from the 1950s-1980s.
Some contemporary replicas of the 500 model are available. While faithful from a cosmetic point of view they are internally very different from the original, including a rotating tone dialer based on optical technology.
In popular culture[edit]
The Model 500 series, and its distinctive ring, are near-ubiquitous in late 20th-century U.S. and Canadian film and television. Perhaps attesting to their robust construction, Model 500s are shown as an effective weapon in the film True Lies.
Touch-tone successors[edit]
Model 1500[edit]
The Western Electric model 1500 telephone adapted the 500 design for touch-tone dialing having a push-button pad for the digits 0 through 9. It was produced from 1963 to 1968. In addition to the basic single-line model 1500D, the 1500-series included many related variations and special purpose models with additional features. This included sets with a headset jack, 2-line sets, key sets (1560), call directors, panel phones (1750), industrial phones (1520), and automatic dialers (1660).[5]
Model 2500[edit]
By the late 1960s interactive response systems in some industries required additional signaling than the ten digits. Additional vertical telephony features were also planned and required a larger set of DTMF signals. In 1968, the # key and the * key were added to the push-button dial pad, and the model 2500 telephone entered production. The additional keys were located on either side of the '0' button to fill the matrix of 4-by-3 keys. These keys were initially unused by most customers, but would later be used for vertical service codes, and voice mail menu navigation. In 1974, when modular connectors were introduced, the model 2500 was adapted and fitted with modular connectors for the handset cord as well as the line cord, resulting in model numbers suffixed with M, e.g. 2500DM. The 2500 is still commonly encountered today and it is still produced by several companies.
In addition to the basic single-line model, the Western Electric 2500-series included many related variations and special purpose models with additional features. This included sets with a headset jack, 2-line sets, keysets (2560), call directors, panel phones (2750), industrial phones (2520), automatic dialers (2660).[6]
See also[edit]
- ^ Waidlich, J.E. (May 1, 1950). "Distribution of 500-Type Telephone Sets". American Telephone and Telegraph Company. New York, NY: Telephone Collectors International. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
- ^ Events in Telecommunications History, AT&T
- ^ Chapuis, R.J., Joel Jr., A.E., Joel, A.E., 100 Years of Telephone Switching, IOS Press, 2003, p. 334
- ^ "Western Electric 500-series Telephone Types".
- ^ "Western Electric 1500-series Telephone Types".
- ^ "Western Electric 2500-series Telephone Types".
External links[edit]
- http://www.porticus.org/bell/telephones-500.html Western Electric Model 500
- http://www.arctos.com/dial/ Western Electric Telephone Models
- http://www.cortelco.com/pdf/2008SolGuide.pdf


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Alter do Chao is set on a beautiful bay in the Rio Tapajos overlooked by two easily climbable hills, one the shape of a church altar, giving the place its name. Most of the year the bay is fringed by white sand beaches, which combine with the deep blue of the Tapajos to give it a Mediterranean look. In the dry season a sandbank in the middle of the bay is accessible either by wading or by canoe, and simple stalls provide the fried fish and chilled beer essential to the full enjoyment of the scene.
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Description, qualifying comments, and acceptable water years. Drainage area is 321 sq.mi. Datum is 1186.92 ft. Located in hydrologic unit 05010001 at Latitude: 41:51:09N Longitude: 079:19:03W Station is in the state of PA (county code 123) and serviced by the PA office. Channel slope is 7.15 feet/mile Stream length is 41.60 miles Mean basin elevation is 1580.00 feet above National Geodetic Vertical Datum Percent of contributing drainage area covered by Storage: 1.23% Lakes: 0.23% Forests: 64.00% Glaciers: N.A.% Soil infiltration index is 2.99 inches Annual precipitation is 46.50 inches Precipitation intensity is 2.30 inches/24 hour (expected on the average once each two years) January minimum temperature is 20.00 degrees Fahrenheit Daily and longer averages for 79 water years are acceptable (all years except partial years). A water year with acceptable data is indicated by an asterisk in the time line, which spans 1874 through 1988. Water year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 8 8 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 4-----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5--8 ....................................*******************************************************************************The streamflow data Daily values, monthly mean values, and yearly mean values of streamflow data are available in tablular form. Select the desired option from the list below.
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Peter Moon caught up with Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation in 1983, to pick his brains about the future of free software, and why open-source isn't it. "Please don't call GNU 'Linux'," said Stallman, and he also asked readers whether they will 'fight for freedom or be too lazy to resist'.
Peter Moon: You launched the GNU Project in September 1983 to create a free Unix-like operating system, and have been the project's lead architect and organiser since then. Why did you start it in the first place? Back then it was already clear that software was becoming proprietary?
Stallman: In 1983, all operating systems were proprietary, non-free software. It was impossible to buy a computer and use it in freedom. Proprietary software keeps the users divided and helpless, by forbidding them to share it and denying them the source code to change it.
The only way I could use computers in freedom was to develop another operating system and make it free software. I announced the plan in September 1983, and began development of the GNU system in January 1984.
PM: On February 3, 1976, Bill Gates wrote his famous "open letter to hobbyists" where he stated that software should be paid [for] just like hardware. Did you read that manifesto at the time? What was your impression back then?
Stallman: I never heard of it at the time. I was not a hobbyist, I was a system developer employed at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. I had little interest in 16-bit microcomputers, because the lab's PDP-10, with a memory equivalent to 2.5MB, was much more fun. Pascal is both weak and inelegant compared with Lisp, our high-level language, and for things that had to be fast, assembler language was more flexible.
I don't know how I would have reacted at that time if I had seen that memo. My experience at the AI lab had taught me to appreciate the spirit of sharing and free software, but I had not yet come to the conclusion that non-free (proprietary) software was an injustice. In 1976 I did not use any non-free software. It was only in 1977, when Emacs was ported to the non-free Twenex time-sharing system that I started to experience the nastiness of proprietary software. After that, I needed time to recognise this as an ethical and political issue.
PM: What do you think about intellectual property?
Stallman: I am careful not to use that confusing term in my thoughts, because it does not refer to a coherent thing, although it misleadingly appears to. The term lumps together laws that raise totally different issues, as if they were one subject.
Copyrights exist, and I have opinions about copyright law. Patents also exist, but patent law is almost completely different from copyright law. My opinions about patent law are also completely different from my opinions about copyright law. Trademark law exists too and it has nothing at all in common with copyright law or patent law. If you want to think clearly about any of these laws, the first step is firmly insisting on treating them as three different subjects.
If you say something about "intellectual property", you are trying to generalise about three laws that are totally different. Whatever you say will be a foolish over-generalisation, because that term only leads to such. I've decided to avoid that pitfall by never using the term.
[Click here for more on Stallman's philosophy of intellectual property]
PM: What's more important to you, GNU's huge user base or its large developer base?
Stallman: I appreciate them both, but neither is what matters most. We didn't develop GNU just to make it a technical triumph, or just to have a success. Our goal was to win freedom, for ourselves and for you.
What's important about GNU is that it provides a way to use computers in freedom. But this achievement is precarious. There are hundreds of GNU/Linux distros, and nearly all include some non-free software.
In 1992, GNU/Linux made it possible for the first time to use a PC and keep your freedom. By 2000, ironically, every version of GNU/Linux included non-free software and thus invited users to surrender their freedom by installing some. Today, I am glad to say, the Ututo and gNewSense distributions are 100 percent free software.


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An Empirical Analysis of Dissensus on the United States Courts of AppealsJason J. CzarnezkiPace University - School of Law William K. FordThe John Marshall Law School July 2006 Marquette Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 06-31 1st Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper Abstract: Judges often emphasize that decision-making on the courts of appeals is a product of collegial deliberation among judges. Many factors may help promote judicial collegiality or create dissensus in the courts. We examine aggregate disagreement - or dissensus - on the United States Court of Appeals for the First, Seventh, Ninth, and D.C. Circuits and attempt to explain dissensus as a product of several variables: the ideological makeup of the court, the size of the court, the addition of new members to the court, the chief judge's years of experience, the number of judges with trial court experience, workload, and a measure of aggregate co-tenure, which is the average number of years of shared service on the court for each pair of judges on the court. Using both pooled and individual OLS estimates for the four circuits, we find only limited evidence that these variables contribute to the aggregate levels of disagreement on these courts. Number of Pages in PDF File: 20 Keywords: courts of appeals, dissents, dissensus Date posted: July 6, 2006Suggested Citation |
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Count me in Kelvin! I always enjoy being involved with these swaps and meeting the fellow angler behind thier avatar. And I noticed some of you guys getting in on this from the East side, which makes a face to face the more difficult. Here's an idea to think about before the 30th. How about a "summit" or "mid-state" face to face? Since you are the host Kelvin, what are your thoughts on this?
Sorry, didn't realize this was a face to face swap, I'll be in Montana and won't be able to make it. I'm out.
I see where it says "due March 30th" but no mention of a face to face. Face to face won't work for me in Moses Lake unless everyone is fishing Dry Falls on the opener.
i don't think it'll be face to face from the looks. I hope not because i'm pretty stoked for this. i got something nice goin. . .
sorry Richard, i didn't see your "mid-state" idea. i was just thinkin since 2 people already said they'd be out if it was face to face we'd go ahead and do it mail wise.
I think Ron Eagle Elk just set a new land speed record and asked me for my mailing address this morning to send me his completed flies. So I got inspired, choose a pattern, and ran with it. All mine are now tied Ps there is no prize for speed but there should be one.
I can tie my usual Lochsa Racoon (small stillwater emerger) if people want, or could try something new like the snowshoe upwing emerger posted by Hans last week. - Preferences?
ill start mine today, is anyone else thinkin of a BWO? if so i might switch it up and do a purple phase emerger.
I'm going with a mid emerger. When mids emerge they will tend to stick both their heads and then tails up first leaving their middle section in the water. The middle section tends to shine with the built up gasses regardless of the original color of the bug so my emergers are silver/static bag and they have flotation on both ends.


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Carter Ashton
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2005-06: Carter Ashton was selected by the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the first round (7th overall) of the 2006 WHL Bantam Draft.
2006-07: Ashton scored 28 goals with 38 assists and 99 PIM in 41 games for the Saskatoon Contacts in the SMHL. He made his WHL debut appearing in two games with the Hurricanes, posting no points and a -1 rating.
2007-08: In his first season with the Lethbridge Hurricanes, Ashton appeared in just 40 games due to an injury. He scored 5 goals with 4 assists and was -2 with 21 PIM. Ashton played in 19 playoff games and had 1 assist with 12 PIM and was -2 as the Hurricanes reached the WHL finals. He played for Canada Western in the World U-17 Challenge and had 1 goal with 5 assists and 2 PIM in six games.
2008-09: Ashton appeared in 70 games for the Lethbridge Hurricanes and had a breakout year in his draft season. He scored 30 goals with 20 assists and was -5 with 93 PIM. In the 2009 WHL playoffs, Ashton played in 11 games, with 1 goal and 2 assists and was -8 with 15 PIM as the Hurricanes defeated Saskatoon in a seven-game, first-round series before being swept by Calgary in the second round. Ashton played in the 2009 Top Prospects Game.
2009-10: Ashton attended the Lightning camp before returning to the WHL. After starting the season with Lethbridge, he was part of a multi-player trade in December that sent him to the Regina Pats. Ashton played 65 games between the two teams and scored 24 goals with 27 assists and was -13 with 109 PIM. Ashton made his pro debut following the season, as Regina failed to make the playoffs. IN 11 games with Tampa Bay's AHL affiliate Norfolk, he scored 1 goal and was -3 with 6 PIM.
2010-11: Ashton appeared in two AHL playoff games for Norfolk after putting up 71 points in 66 WHL games during the junior season and skating for Canada at the 2011 U20 World Junior Championships. He was scoreless and -3 in his two-game stint with the Admirals. Ashton skated in 29 games for Regina before a mid-season trade to Tri-City in the WHL. He finished the WHL regular season with 33 goals and 38 assists and was -6 with 106 PMs. Ashton scored 12 of his 17 power play goals with Tri-City and in ten playoff games for the Americans he had 3 goals with 5 assists and was -1 with 4 PMs. In seven games with silver medal-winning Canada at the junior tournament he had 1 goal with 2 assists and was +1 with 6 PMs.
2011-12: Ashton made his NHL debut as a 20-year-old, skating in his first game in the Maple Leafs' 3-2 loss at Pittsburgh on March 7th. Obtained from Tampa Bay in a trade for defenseman Keith Aulie, Ashton appeared in 15 games for the Leafs and was minus-10 with no points and 13 penalty minutes; averaging 10:25 minutes of ice time. He spent most of his first pro season in the AHL – scoring 19 goals with 16 assists and 58 penalty minutes in 56 games for Lightning affiliate Norfolk. In seven games with the Toronto Marlies following the trade he scored 2 goals with 1 assists and was minus-three with 8 penalty minutes. The Marlies finished first in the North Division and reached the AHL finals. Ashton appeared in six AHL playoff games – including all four in the final series against his former team – and was minus-two with 1 goal, 2 assists and 8 penalty minutes.
2012-13: Ashton spent his first full season in the Toronto organization with the AHL affiliate Marlies. He skated in 58 regular season games, missing 18 games due to a broken bone in his foot. Ashton scored 11 goals with 8 assists and was +5 with 67 penalty minutes. Toronto finished first in the North Division and reached the second round in the AHL playoffs. Ashton scored 3 goals with 2 assists and was -1 with 4 penalty minutes in nine playoff games.
2013-14: Ashton spent his third pro season shuffling between the Maple Leafs and the AHL — skating in 32 games for Toronto and spending the rest of the year with the AHL's Marlies. Seeing mostly fourth line duty with the Leafs he had 3 assists and was +1 with 19 penalty minutes, averaging 6:16 minutes of ice time per game. Ashton was a nearly point-per-game scorer for the Marlies, finishing with 16 goals and 7 assists in 24 regular season games. He was +8 with 30 penalty minutes. Toronto finished first in the North Division and reached the Western Conference finals — falling to Texas in a seven-game series. Ashton scored 4 goals with 5 assists and was +3 with 16 penalty minutes in 12 playoff games. He was tendered a one-year two-way contract and re-signed with the Maple Leafs as a restricted free agent in July 2014.
Talent Analysis
Ashton has good size and solid scoring instincts down low, but needs to make better use of his frame off the rush. He moves well up and down the ice, and is a willing physical combatant. A consistent scorer at the AHL level, he has been more of a lower line, two-way forward in the NHL to this point. Ashton is the son of former NHL winger Brent Ashton.
Ashton was with the Maple Leafs out of training camp to start the 2014-15 season but did not make his first game appearance until October 31st. He skated in three games for the Leafs before receiving a 20-game suspension for violating the league's policy on PED substances. He played four games with the Leafs after the suspension before being returned to the AHL's Toronto Marlies. In February 2014 Ashton was dealt along with David Broll to the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for a conditional draft pick and is currently with the AHL's Syracuse Crunch.


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Greetings from Lake Wu | |||||
Jay Lake | |||||
Wheatland Press, 268 pages | |||||
A review by Sherwood Smith
So is there a thematic connection? Yes. In his introduction to Greetings from Lake Wu,
Andy Duncan observes that Jay Lake writes about religion -- that
all the stories are about religion, but hastens to add (correctly) that does not mean there is any propounding of dogma
because there isn't. Lake tries to dig down inside the human psyche for those impulses that some call religious, others might
term the contemplation of the unknown -- the sense of wonder.
He also writes, gleefully, about blood and death and life and love, using horror and humor and adventure and action. The
stories I found the strongest concerned aliens -- contact, alien thinking, dealing with an unknown quantity. Perhaps this is
not surprising, given that theme of teleological question.
The collection opens and closes with a pair of stories set in the far future, featuring Ahriman and Port -- an alien and an A.I.
respectively. In the first story, "The Courtesy of Guests," Ahriman has come to the dying Earth to observe. Presently a pair of
humans appear, advanced, perfect-seeming, to tidy off last messy origin of human life -- Earth. Their encounter with Ahriman and
Port is exquisitely written, thoroughly unpredictable, ending on just the right note.
The next two stories, "The Trick of Disaster" and "Eglantine's Time" take place in a sort of futuristic dreamscape. Both stories
clue the long-time reader to what's coming fairly early on -- the first when the evil clown meets the Innocent, and the second as
soon as the evil doctor brings in the kitten to bed-ridden, imprisoned Eglantine -- but Lake manages to transform predictability to
expectation, and in both stories accomplishes the payoff with lyrical skill that provides just the right emotional touch.
"The Scent of Rotting Roses" takes place far in the future, on another world. In this story, Terran representatives are trying
to contact long-lost words, to bring them into contact with the main civilization. But these encounters are often fraught with
peril deriving from old war hardware, and the strange ways life evolves therefrom. The pacing is terrific, the imagery sharp,
clear, and very, very weird.
"G.O.D" is a short, delightful triptych, riffing on words and old folk tales.
"The Angle of My Dreams" concerns an eleven-year-old boy living with his grandfather, who in measuring the angle of his dreams learns to fly...
just to discover that flying is not unknown in his family. Many readers will love this story for the tight relationship between the boy
and his grandfather, for the hints of complexity in the grandfather's personality.
I felt it was the weakest of the collection; in the shortcuts here (dying mother, no father, tropes that seem a tad too convenient) there
is a veering close to easily-tapped sentiment, rather than the emotional depth one sees elsewhere in Lake's work.
"Tall Spirits, Walking the Night" takes place around a grubby bar in Texas -- which is the setting for more than one story. Moke is an old
drunk whom the protagonist helps out, though not believing any of his weird ramblings, until one night when the sky is "like blood
staining a bathtub full of warm water." Again painful death is central to the story, but Lake brings it all together with furious
pacing and unrelenting imagery.
From here on the stories in Greetings from Lake Wu just get more powerful. "Who Sing but Do Not
Speak" is best described as alien myth, resonating with our own
mythic ur-tales. Lake's alien voice builds steadily in strength to a transcendent ending; looking back, I was surprised to see how short
the story is; it carried enough image and idea for a much longer piece.
"Glass: A Love Story" is set in a nightmare version of a big city. Deke has fallen in love with a woman and stakes one of his kidneys
on getting her the perfect diamond ring, with disastrous results; she's a woman made of crystal, and as she shouts when she leaves
him, diamonds cut! The woman takes off and Deke spends the rest of the story chasing his perfect love, meeting some bizarre and
fascinating characters along the way. One wonders if Deke will be cut to pieces before he finds her; another unpredictable and wild ride.
"The Murasaki Doctrine" is the longest story in the collection, at eighty-four pages. It reads, in fact, like a severely compressed
novel. In the beginning, especially, there are bald statements of information that the reader wishes to have seen played out. Even so,
the pacing is terrific from the very first paragraph, when a mid-level officer named Wanda Murasaki is leaving the Government House
in Katyn, the capital of the world she lives on. She sees giant insect warriors dropping from the sky, who proceed to start killing
humans in a systematic and obviously well-planned attack.
She strikes back the only way she knows how, discovering that up close and personal they are easy to kill -- if you can avoid their
energy rifles and powerfully wielded machetes. The velocity builds steadily as she tries to save her own life, gather information
about an attack that begins to make less and less sense, and fight back, carrying the reader past some rather abrupt transitions,
and shortchanging of character, especially Wanda, who seems at first one of those protagonists you see sometimes in SF or military
adventure: eternally in their thirties, no encumbrances like a family or even a past except maybe a conveniently bad love affair or
two to fuel their brooding. Once or twice Lake employs the tactic of eyes revealing information, but this universal trope, too easy
for a writer of Lake's caliber, only appears briefly, and only in this story; it seems as if that, too, was part of compressing a
novel down to novella length.
Great science fiction ideas and world-building, alien strangeness, and characters that increase in complexity as Wanda begins to
emotionally engage make the tale riveting -- I kept scamping my day job in order to get back and read just a few pages more. The
emotional handling, once Wanda gets to the orbiting station, is terrific. Check out the scene when Wanda is going to use a corpse
to try to send a message, the sort of scene that could be banal in a lesser writer, but strikes with hard emotional verity. I
hope this means Lake is one day going to write a novel; I suspect the greater length would give his powers of observation,
imagination, and lyrical ability the air time they need to reach new levels of expression.
The last three stories would have to be very strong to follow that -- and they are. "The Goat Cutter" is another Texas story, a nasty
little piece of horror in a vivid voice, deceptively entertaining at the beginning, with its two small-town, horny teenage boys
looking for fun and trouble. With remorseless skill Lake carries the reader with them straight into hell.
"Jack's House" features a young Rat who lives with other animals in a disintegrating mansion that had once belonged to Jack. Life
is constant warfare as the animals slowly consume the house in order to survive -- when they aren't fighting, mice against rats, rats
against cats, cats against the dogs outside, and dogs against bears and other creatures in the woods. The Rat becomes a hero, an
outcast, a diplomat, as he seeks to answer questions that seem to have no answers.
And finally there is "The Passing of Guests," and back to Ahriman and Port as the universe appears to be ending, and they carry on
their teleological debate. This story splendidly weaves together science, religious question, and action, bringing the reader to
the last line, which is just breathtaking.
Greetings from Lake Wu is a keeper.
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